• Discuss how you can apply at least four of the weekly course learning outcomes throughout this course to your professional or personal life. One of the course learning objectives that can be applied to my professional life is the outcome: Compare and contrast among local area and wide area network technologies and architectures. A wide area network (WAN) is a network that covers a broad area using leased telecommunication lines. My company uses WANs to relay data among employees, clients, buyers, and suppliers in various geographical locations. The second course objective that I can apply to both my personal and professional life is the objective Evaluate the ethical concerns that communication networks raise in a global context. Ethics is the principles of right and wrong that individuals, acting as free moral agents, use to make choices to guide their behaviors. Information systems bring about new ethical questions for both individuals and societies because they create opportunities for intense social change, and therefore threaten existing distributions of power, money, rights, and obligations. I think the concept of ethics can be applied to both my personal and …show more content…
Network security entails the requirements and policies adopted by a network administrator to prevent and monitor unauthorized access, misuse, modification, or denial of a computer network and network-accessible resources. Network security includes the authorization of access to data in a network, which is controlled by the network administrator. Network security covers a variety of computer networks, both public and private. I work for a bank and there is valuable information stored throughout the network. I think that it is important for the network of my employer to be secure and